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BY GARY IWAMOTO Masajiro Furuya — banker, merchant, and manufacturer — was perhaps the most prominent local Japanese American businessman of the early 20th Century. Taking advantage of every business opportunity, Furuya’s success was

BY STEVEN GOLDSMITH Takuji Yamashita passed the bar exam. His license to practice law arrived 99 years later. What took it so long reveals much about the obstacles that Issei like Yamashita faced. Yamashita

BY KEN MOCHIZUKI Yoshio Fujimura, 67, says his family doesn’t know why his great uncle Matajiro Tsukuno immigrated to America in the first place. Born in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture near Mt. Fuji in 1864,